International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

It being International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day when writers are giving away a piece of their work for free (for those not familiar, see link), I put up a copy of Fairy Prince. A short fantasy tale, with the usual stock characters, that was published in ASIM #5.

Also added Shepherd's Watch, which originally appeared in Elysian Fiction.

(I am avoiding the unpublished stuff, because I will start 'fixing' them and end up not getting any work done on Novel tonight.)

Writing stuff

"And I think I know how to make him show his hand."

That's good. Now would you care to share with me, seeing I'm the one who is going to be writing it?

So Agent Kyle has thought of something that he can do or say that will give away the midnight rider's identity. What would that be?

I'm still working on Fox obviously. It was a close thing. This morning I pulled out the first draft of Falcon, which was my Nanonovel from last year. The one I spent 10 days fighting to get words for and then wrote the remaining 27,000 words in *mumble*3*mumble* days. I read the first few paragraphs, and liked what I read. The writing sucked. It is put together with words scraped off the bottom of the writing pond. I knew it sucked. But the ideas, the characters, the situation, I like it. I kept reading. I read the whole bloody draft.

The main character in this, I have spent months trying to get him to shut up so I could concentrate on what I wanted to work on. I finally managed this about 10 days ago and what do I do? The one thing guaranteed to "get his attention" again. I do wish it was possible to hire the ingrates out to other writers.

So I'm letting the characters in WTSBIP (Work That Should Be In Progress) have their heads for now, to encourage them to do something interesting. Coming up with plans that I don't know about wasn't really what I had in mind though.